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At what mileage do the spark plugs need changing also what are the benefits of a filter breather...

every 40,000 miles or every 4 years

Breather filter helps by not allowing the horrible crappy oily mess back into the engine. However. A problem does come from this. The filter needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. You'll also find you lose a little oil though it and it tends to make a mess of your engine bay by chucking oil everywhere (personal experience anyway). The solution I've just done is to buy an oil catch tank and run the filter off this. This catches the oil so less mess and smell. Only problem is there's no room in the engine bay for one, so i've had to relocate the power steering resevior to accomodate this.

As i bought the car in the service book it says in the last service the spark plugs were apprently changed but they look black/oily also the car takes a bit of time to start up but ti does start up...

vdubit have you got a picture of your engine bay please??

vdubit wrote:Breather filter helps by not allowing the horrible crappy oily mess back into the engine. However. A problem does come from this. The filter needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. You'll also find you lose a little oil though it and it tends to make a mess of your engine bay by chucking oil everywhere (personal experience anyway). The solution I've just done is to buy an oil catch tank and run the filter off this. This catches the oil so less mess and smell. Only problem is there's no room in the engine bay for one, so i've had to relocate the power steering resevior to accomodate this.

Pics

^^^^ 2nd that get up some pics Please. Also where did you get the Oil catch tank ?

Um, will try get some tommorow, was gonna keep it all under wraps until the bay's finished, but i'll give a sneaky pic!

Catch tank came from ebay, £45.

Andy